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The RNC will hold its “We Built This!” session in a publicly owned arena constructed with 62% public financing (sales taxes, city bonds).
Adrienne Rich: “Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler—for the liar—than it really is, or ought to be.”
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” – Italo Calvino #longreads http://t.co/tOoFuDuo
Happy birthday to Edward Gorey, who loved vampires and Edwardian ladies, ballet and books, cats and bats. http://j.mp/OAaAJo
Zadie Smith: “The market is not an efficient solution to libraries because the market has no use for a library.” http://t.co/jGhNMqLN
Norway, the world’s richest country, is 496 times richer than Burundi, the poorest. Why? Jared Diamond explains: http://t.co/aFTdPjgx
In memoriam Gore Vidal (1925–2012). His writing in our pages: http://t.co/A18flbQv
Zadie Smith: “We like libraries. Can we keep our libraries? Pleading, like children. Is that really where we are?” http://t.co/jGhNMqLN
“We guarantee that crazed man after crazed man will have a flood of killing power readily supplied him.” Garry Wills: http://j.mp/RwkJKX
Israel’s Interior Minister: “The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages.” @haaretzcom http://j.mp/Wj20U0
Garry Wills on Romney: What can be worse than to sell your soul and find it not valuable enough to get anything for it? http://j.mp/TxkHMC
Garry Wills on the horror of Newtown: “the sacrifice we as a culture made, and continually make, to our demonic god.” http://j.mp/RwkJKX
In Morocco, half the youth are unemployed, while the king is richer than Britain’s queen. Why was there no Arab Spring? http://t.co/pbwXXblT
Oliver Sacks: “Some of our most cherished memories may never have happened—or may have happened to someone else.” http://j.mp/XNraFm
“A library is a different kind of social reality, which by its existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.” http://t.co/jGhNMqLN
“First Moloch, horrid king, besmear’d with blood / Of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears…” Our great god, the gun: http://j.mp/RwkJKX
“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.” How Google Dominates Us by @jamesgleick http://bit.ly/o7A2Rt #longreads
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